Hi,
As you probably know, the Qt company announced [1] that 5.15.3 is going
to be a commercial-only release. It won't be exaggeration to say that
this is really sad news.
Unfortunately, KWin/Wayland is going to be affected by this unexpected
freeze of Qt 5.15 for open-source because there is a very important
bugfix in qtwaylandscanner 5.15.3 to prevent (rare, but still possible)
compositor crashes.
We have the following options:
(a) Ask all distributions that ship KDE Plasma to patch qtwayland [2]
(b) Fork qtwaylandscanner. It's a relatively small project, so it won't
cause any huge maintenance hurdles
What are your thoughts on this matter?
Cheers,
Vlad
[1]
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2021-January/040798.html
[2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/319811
